HAVE YOU COUNTED YOUR BLESSINGS LATELY?

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fMjgS4vu4o&list=RD9fMjgS4vu4o

The Story Behind Count Your Blessings

Johnson Oatman, Jr. grew up in New Jersey in the middle of the 19th Century singing hymns with his father. His life is a testimony to the legacy left by a loving Father who sings praise to God with his children! Johnson grew up to become a bi-vocational Methodist minister and he wrote over 5,000 hymns, including Count Your Blessings in 1897. Count Your Blessings is considered his finest hymn and for over one century it has been one of our most loved hymns. It’s a song of thankfulness to God that his sung by English speaking people around the world on Thanksgiving Day and all year long. see more on the History of Count Your Blessings

http://www.soulshepherding.org/2012/11/count-your-blessings/

Have you counted your blessings lately?  Did you know that the word Blessing means something or someone contributing to happiness, well being or prosperity? To be blessed is to enjoy happiness,Have you stopped to thank God for all the blessings he’s blessed you with lately?

SINCE I SAW YOU LAST

(UPDATE FOR ALL BLOGS)

Do you know that ole saying, when it rains it pours? seems like it’s been raining a lot “LIFE” that is, Feb, it was one thing after another with the computer, sewing, uploading pictures anything to do with sewing , you name it  & it went ka pootie lol! then we have March, we had to admit my dad into the hospital & into ICU he went, he is home now but still have a ways to go to being completely well, him & mom are staying at my sisters until he gets back to his ole self again

as far as sewing goes, I am working getting all those post uploaded late as they may be, I am walking away from doing anymore  new challenges till we get mom & dad back home

the wrap dress for the Miss Bossy challenge won by a mudslide with 22 votes to 5 on the others

so I’m finishing that up in-between life's happenings, speaking of happenings, as many of you know I have other blogs & I often ask what you'd like to see more of & encourage you to put your two cents worth in, I guess no one has 2c to put an opinion in but that’s ok I love all my little “peekers” I know they're out there they’re just not making their presence known lol!

blogging may be  a little slow right now but I’ll never be in it for the popularity, I do it because I enjoy it & if life  gets in the way that's ok, blogging is like having company, when someone knocks on the door aren’t we glad to see them? offer them a cool drink? sit on the porch? etc? do we cry if nobody comes the next day? noooo do  we worry that no one will ever come again? noooo, we go about our routine & embrace the next visit because we know all is well!

 

THE WORD PART TWO

 

*what is the word?

*what does the word do for us

* what are we  to do with the word?

*why is the word so important?

These are good things to ponder, when  we study the word  we find that we are to

BELIEVE THE WORD (Luke 8:12)

RECEIVE THE WORD (Prov.2:1)

HOPE IN THE WORD (Ps.19:114)

the word is favorable news, scripture, what we call the gospel

to do these things  this  we must

SEEK THE WORD (Prov.2)

STUDY THE WORD (2Tim.2:15)

HIDE THE WORD IN OUR HEART (Ps.119:33-35).

and thus we learn to

LIVE IN THE WORD (Matt.4:4)

WALK IN THE WORD (Deut.5:33)

ACKNOWLEDGE THE WORD (Prov.3:6)

the word equips us to be able to stand so that we may be prepared to go out and

PROCLAIM THE WORD (Jer.3:12)

TEACH THE WORD (Col.3:16)(Matt.28:19)

PREACH THE WORD (2Tim.4:2)

1Peter 1 :3-11 explains how God’s Word is eternal that through faith we are kept by the power of God and though we have not yet seen him we believe in him & rejoice with joy unspeakable, the grass withereth and the flower falleth away but the word of the Lord endureth forever!

THE WORD PART ONE

WORD:

* A small combination of sounds represented in writing*favorable news*scriptures,the Gospel

THINGS TO PONDER:

Why does 2 Tim tell us it's important to study the word?

Why  does Psalms tell us it's important to hide the word in our heart?

Why does Proverbs tell us to bind up the word in our heart?

Why does Peter tell us we should have an answer for why we believe what we say we believe?

*study to shew thyself approved unto God,  a workman that needeth not to be ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth(2Tim.2:15)

* thy word have I hid in mine heart that I might not sin against thee (Ps.119:11)

* let not mercy and truth forsake thee, bind them about thy neck,write them upon the tablet of thine heart (Prov.3:3)

* But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason  of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear 1Peter 3:15)

Have you read  Psalms 119 ? it is full of encouragement of the word so take  time to read it, savor it, meditate on it, receive it!